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Dog3 > wrote:

> "Nancy Young" > wrote in
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> >
> > "zxcvbob" > wrote
> >> When I was a kid, mellorine* was always in square (actually
> >> rectangular) cartons, and I think ice cream came in round cartons. I
> >> don't remember the ice cream all that much because we couldn't afford
> >> it very often so we usually had mellorine instead.
> >>
> >> I haven't noticed anything labeled "mellorine" in at least 30 years.
> >> Ice cream in square cartons is still usually much cheaper than ice
> >> cream sold in round cartons; I wonder if that's a holdover from the
> >> mellorine days?
> >
> >> *Mellorine is a frozen dessert that resembles ice cream, but contains
> >> vegetable oil or animal fat instead of much of the butterfat.
> >> Imagine "ice milk" fortified with shortening.
> >
> > I have never heard of such a thing, but you suddenly reminded me of
> > my elderly Irish aunt, she would buy these squarish boxes of
> > Napolitan? ice cream ... chocolate, strawberry and vanilla. Thanks
> > for the memory.
> >
> > nancy
>
> I've never heard of it either. Now I'm curious about it. Of course this
> person did not know what oleo was until someone in this group patiently
> explained what it was.

I certainly remember it, growing up in the south in the fifties.Tasted
kind of like ice cream, cost somewhat less.

Isaac